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Get to know Janet Anderson, Ryan Bizzarro, Jason Owen, and Sean Wiley a little better before the debates!

After more than a decade of war in the Middle East, post-traumatic stress disorder is a national epidemic. Erie is no exception.

You know you?ve made it in the film industry when a line from your first commercial success makes the American Film Industry?s list of the top 100 movie quotes of all time ? a list compiled just five years after its release.

These are the hands of an artist.

Corning Incorporated is known for its glass innovations. From fiber optics to Eco-friendly LCD TV?s, Corning has a history for revolutionizing glass-related technology. Their current project, Gorilla Glass 2, will transform many aspects of our lives and will eventually bring new touch-screen technology into the classroom. The hands-on glass will change the way future generations learn and interact with technology.

She?s a disco diva, actress, Philadelphia native, and Distinguished Artist Award recipient in the 1998 Governor?s Awards for the Arts ? and she also makes a mean sesame chicken stir fry.

I?m not just lurking aimlessly through cemeteries; I have a guide. It?s the Let?s Move Outside Erie County Recreational Passport, and I?m currently making my way along the Fort LeBoeuf Trail. LeBoeuf is one of 10 trails, and my mission is to complete all of them by October 20. If I do, I?ll get a prize for enjoying the outdoors, getting my heart rate up (climbing on covered bridges optional) and learning the stories behind local landmarks, such as Hare?s resting place. Pretty sweet deal, right?

Once again, Erie Art Museum director John Vanco has cobbled together a strong lineup culled from several genres and sub-genres of Blues and Jazz. I recently sat with him to discuss the lineup for this, the 20th Annual Erie Art Museum Blues and Jazz Festival.

Three hours and 31 brewers -- Erie, enjoy your craft beer on the bay.

I don?t speak Albanian. Ferki Ferati does, though. Born in the small village of Bare, Kosovo in 1983, it?s his native language.

Let?s face it: we?re not all called to be novelists or published poets. But when we can?t shake an image or a phrase or a feeling from our heads, we turn to our tattered notebooks and beloved Moleskine journals or even bar napkins. Humans are communicators through language by nature, and finding just the right way to say what we want to say can be an art form.

A summer party is quite a simple concoction at heart. Comprised of one part summer weather and one part family and friends, this magical mixture results in a truly wonderful creation ? good, old-fashioned fun. Of course, sometimes a summer shindig transforms from a little get-together into a big event propelled by popular demand. Just look at The Gathering at Chaffee?s.

The shoreline of Lake Erie stretches for 871 miles, but it would be hard to find a better place than the 3,112-acre Presque Isle State Park to enjoy it.

We are all affected. According to the World Health Organization, one in three people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. The other two will know someone who is diagnosed.

Even if he were to just pack it up, call it a day, and be done with his altruistic efforts, he has already surpassed what many others have done charitably over the course of their entire lives.